The [Eleanore] in the screen recovered after so ti and outright jumped from the building, a few seconds later she showed once more on the screen, after jumping back up. Was she that strong?
"Sorry about that, I dropped my phone." [Eleanore] said, "Can you repeat the last thing you said?"
"...Alexa is here with us, do you want to speak to her?" Aunty Viv said again, "I can attest that she is healthy. Miriam brought it for a health check-up."
"Yeah," The mom person said from the side, "I found her unconscious, so we were worried. We are looking for her guardians."
"[Truth]", [Eleanore] repeated once more, her eyes shining with a stronger azure light this ti, "Goddamned truth... No wait, guardians... We do have a line of contact to her brother... But I am unsure if it would be wise to use it."
They had?
"Any other point of contact besides the brother?" The mom person chid suddenly, "Any other family?"
"None, when he ca into the equation, our right to act as a guardian was put in question." [Eleanore] said shaking her head, "And even if it wasn't. As soon as she was deed dead, we scrubbed her from our database, even with the complaints of my boss. Since we couldn't provide proof of her being alive for more than seventy-two hours..."
Oh right, what was the deal with that?
"So you had proof of her death almost two weeks ago?" Aunty Viv asked, "What proof? Do you have any copies of the dical records?"
"There were no dical records, all we had was a body cam footage." [Eleanore] said sighing aloud, "We had visual confirmation from one ouf our employees."
"That's all?" Aunty Viv asked surprised, "No vitals taken? No dical examination? Nothing?"
"Her body was taken by Alexa's family, even if he claid that it wasn't her sister." [Eleanore] answered gripping the barandal at the side of the veranda she stood, "I should have known better, especially from that family. Even if he claid that the sister wasn't dead, why would he want to take the body?"
"You know what family she is from?" The mom person asked, "You know Alexa's brother's Identity?"
"Of course I know she is a Saintsworths. I don't know which spoiled brat she is the sister of, but I know he is sowhat high on the echelon." [Eleanore] answered, then, sitting against the veranda, she put the phone to the side, pulling out a device that she put directly into her ear. Was that a headphone? "You know her brother? Since you are asking, is he that important?"
"...You could say so." The mom person said turning to Alexa, "She never told you?"
"We didn't ask, she may seem like that, and while her alternate personalities are more mature, she is still a little kid." [Eleanore] answered and then looked to the sky, "I didn't want to stimulate her trauma, or make her rember bad mories."
"Do you want to know?" Aunty Viv asked, "I assu Alexa wouldn't mind."
Alexa shook her head.
"No," [Eleanore] answered, her eyes shining with azure light that seed to illuminate sothing, the light from the fire in her eyes seed to make an ethereal sword above her to beco faintly visible, "I burned my chance with her. At least till Alexa forgives , I will stay away from involving myself with her, unless she seeks my help. I don't intend to ddle in her life."
Alexa could respect that!
"Well, if there aren't any guardians, then that is that." The mom person said sighing, "At least tell Alexa's friends that she is fine?"
Ah!
"Tell [Big Sister] that Ale is fine!" Alexa rembered, Ale was quite close with [Fan Girl]!
So that was the least [Eleanore] could do!
[Eleanore] didn't seem to react to Alexa's voice, was it filtered?
"Can you tell any [Big Sister] of Ale that she is fine?" Aunty Viv said to the screen, "Does she have more family?"
"Big Sister? That should be one of her neighbors." [Eleanore] answered smiling faintly, "I will tell them, they were quite depressed after finding out. But if she isn't dead... then what was that?"
[Eleanore] couldn't help but ask aloud.
"What?" Aunty Viv, of course, bit into that ntion as fast as she could, "What did the Saintsworths that was there do?"
The Mom person also gulped as Aunty Viv said that.
"Rember that I said that her body was taken?" [Eleanore] pointed.
Oh right, if Alexa's body was taken, then what was Alexa wearing right now?
"That's impossible." Aunty Viv pointed, "As we have Alexa with us."
"Exactly," [Eleanore] nodded at that statent, not that she knew they could see her nodding! "Alexa's brother took the body of our employee. They took the body of Alexandra Saintsworths."
"Alexa's oldest sister?" The mom person chid from the side.
"Sister? No, that is the adult personality that Alexa nurtured to deal with the adult world." [Eleanore] said shaking her head, "I saw the footage, she was, without a shred of doubt, dead."
"Can you provide the footage?" Aunty Viv asked, "We will pay for it."
"You know I can't violate the confidentiality clause-" [Eleanore] started answering but was interrupted, by what? By Aunty Viv of course!
"Do we need to use the official channels and ask Hephaestus' Forge for the footage?" Aunty Viv asked, making [Eleanore] suddenly sit straighter, "Or should we use the authority within the Saintsworths?"
"...How much do you know?" [Eleanore] asked narrowing her eyes and glaring at the phone, then turning and glaring to the cara, "Who told you that? Alexa?"
"Do you think the Saintsworths wouldn't check the background of their employees?" Aunty Viv smirked as she answered, "Both Miriam and work in quite high positions within the Saintsworths, all our past was scoured to seek troublematic points. And anything that was deed important was noted, categorized, and tracked."
"We didn't an to found like this Eleanore, we promise." The mom person chid from the side, "And we wouldn't ask if it wasn't important, but Ale. One of Alexa's sisters is suffering from a health issue and if there was a body left of their older sister..."
"We are asking because it could affect Alexa." Aunty Viv nodded as she said as much, "So, can you provide the footage?"
"More goddamned [Truth]." [Eleanore] spat the words as if they tasted as ash, "...I can ask, but I promise nothing."
[Eleanore] then pulled her phone and started mashing at the screen, Alexa wondered what she was doing.
"[Albireo: She is reporting the issue to her boss.]"
"[Albireo: And he in turn is asking for authorization to release the files, do you wish to grant said authorization?]"
Alexa could decide?
"[Ale: Grant the authorization, also ensure all the data on the event is sent to us, sanitize as much as you deem apropiate and allow that to be seen on the big screen.]"
Ale was the one to answer before Alexa could say anything!
"[Alibreo: As you wish Mistress.]"
And the nice lady in the wifi answered!
They both ignored Alexa!
"Can I send the data to you to your old email?" [Eleanore] asked after taking a couple of seconds to think.
"Yes," The mom person said, "Vivian, can we open it on this network? Is it safe?"
"If it's on your personal account it should be safe, but we may need to isolate it from the rest of the network..." Aunty Viv pointed behind her, to one of the corners where they had the data banks.
But wasn't that already isolated?
"[The laboratory has been isolated from the rest of the networks as part of the normal procedure.]"
The nice lady said so!
"Ah right, then everything is fine. Send the data Eleanore." The mom person turned to the screen.
"File sent, that is all I have. My employer only allowed this data to be transmitted and so is censored." [Eleanore] said to the cellphone, "Do not try to use this to worm your way back, Vulcanus may be on the better side, but he is still a Super Villain."
"Noted." Aunty Viv said as they waited for the mom person to open the file.
She walked to the side to one of the keyboards and started navigating the applications on the monitor. After a few minutes of doing that she ended up saying aloud, "Albireo, can you project this file? If you do so, will there be a leftover of the data on the Saintsworths servers?"
That was the important question wasn't?
"[As the devices within this laboratory are isolated, nothing will be transmitted. I will be able to see it, but this instance will not share anything with the other instances outside]" The nice lady answered.
And then, within Alexa's mind the extra was added of "[If you require for my assistance, this data can be recovered whenever it is needed.]" To which Alexa nodded.
"Okay, then co this side Vivian," The mom person said and when Alexa started walking there too, a hand was raised to stop her! Injustice! "Alexa... Good cute girls don't watch these things."
Gnnuuuuuuuh
Alexa was a good girl, she was also a cute girl, but she also wanted to see!
"[Ale: You don't have to.]"
But Alexa wanted to seeeeeee! She also wanted to see what happened to Alexandra!
"[Ale: It's not pretty.]"
"Of course it isn't pretty, Alexandra was the most beautiful, you are the prettiest!" Alexa retorted inwardly, rembering that she could also speak inwardly!
"Oh god...." Aunty Viv said as she saw whatever it was there.
"It's not pretty." [Eleanore] spoke on the other side of the screen, "Now you see why I was convinced she was dead."
"How..." The mom person asked, "Vivian... Can... Can soone survive this?"
"No," Aunty Viv said shaking her head, "The wounds alone are problematic, but those... those an that the Core is either going out of control or is too unstable. See, you can see the skin and flesh already turning translucent."
Alexa wanted too seeeeee..........
Wait!
[Main Core! Show Alexa the thing!]
Alexa rembered! She had a trusty servant!
"[Ale: No!]"
[Order Acknowledged, opening data file.]
Alexa smirked as she saw a blue screen materialize in front of her, it was like how Core spoke to her!
And sure enough inside was a photo of Alexandra with a smile on her face and her eyes closed, she looked eepy!
"..."
"Why does Alexandra have weird purple crystals growing on her arm?" Alexa asked pointing at the point on the screen they were using to to see it too, she roughly calculated where it would be on that image.
"...How are you seeing it?" Aunty Viv said confused, "Did Albireo transmit it sowhere else?"
"I can't see it," [Eleanore] answered on the TV, "But even without knowing about dicine I know when soone has lethal wounds."
"Not you, Alexa is seeing it, even though she is standing behind the monitor." The mom person said, "Alexa dear, how are you seeing it? Good girls shouldn't see these kind of images."
"Ah, if you are worried about that you don't have to." [Eleanore] said with a sad smile on her face, "She has sadly seen worse, so much worse... Oh right, you said you had high clearance right? Search in one of your evil databases for the project Happy al. It's a black site."
Happy al?
The food that Alexa ate in the fake at place?
"Albireo." Aunty Viv rely said aloud.
"[Searching... Please wait a second.]"
"This has been bothering ," The mom person said turning to the [Eleanore] on the screen, "Why are you ignoring Alexa's voice?"
"I can't hear her voice." [Eleanore] stated, "This I swear."
"...Albireo must be censoring or blocking it." Aunty Viv said, "The call goes through Alibreo, so they must have deed Alexa's identity sensitive enough to block it."
"Like right there, I don't know what you said, but I assu it was a na that was censored. I don't know throught what the call goes, but the na got censored." [Eleanore] shrugged, "Any luck with the search?"
"[Found a match, it's within the newest report to be given to the military police. Do you wish for a resu on it?]" The Nice Lady said.
"Yes, send the full report to my inbox, just give the abridged version." Aunty Viv said nodding, "Focus on why it affects Alexa and what Eleanore ant."
"[Project Happy al, it was a human experintation facility held by Alfred Miller. The site focused on the rearing and training of child weapons and research into the developnt of ans to prolong the lifespan of people by ans of replacing organs with chanical components.]" The nice lady resud then a series of experints that to be honest, Alexa thought weren't that smart.
Why would you replace a liver with a chanical liver? Wasn't a normal liver good enough?
"[Lady Alexa is on the list of confird victims of this, there was evidence of the kidnaping of a Saintsworths inheritor, this part of the data was not part of the data provided by Haephestus Forge to the law forces, but sothing that was provided to the Saintsworths Conglorate from a third party.]"
"...What?" The mom person said turning to Alexa, tears in her eyes. "What?"
"Yeah, for better or for worse, Alexa has seen hell." [Eleanore] said sighing on the other side of the line, "I can't share the data we got, but I assu it will be sowhat similar to what it is within your own databases, as you have access to law enforcent databases, no doubt."
"There is no evidence that proves that statent." Aunty Viv said succinctly, "But we will check on that, or well. I assure you that Miriam will."
"Those bastards..." The mom person had this whole change in her presence as if she was a last boss at the end of a Hero's journey, "... Thank you for the tip, Eleanore, can I ask sothing extrely rude of you?"
"... Depends," [Eleanore] answered, "What do you have in mind? I will not help the Saintsworths."
"It's not for them, depending on how it ends it could even make them take a loss." The mom person said after calming a little, "But it will be incredibly unfair to you, and will even put you at risk. It doesn't matter how much we sanitize the connection, chances are the Saintsworths central Artificial Intelligence will get this communication between us. And while it will not share it willingly with the High Council... There is no guarantee that it may not end in the hands of a Saintsworths."
"... You may ask, but I will think about answering." [Eleanore] said after thinking for a few seconds.
"Your power... It allows you to determine if sothing is true, is it based on your knowledge or not?" The mom person asked, "To elaborate, if you think sothing is true, but the reality is that it is not. Will your Core Power answer it as true or false?"
"It... depends," [Eleanore] answered after thinking for a few seconds, "If I am doing it superficially without pulling too much Mana into my core, then it answers based on the knowledge I have access to, it doesn't matter if I actively know it to be true or not. If the information is sothing I was made aware even by soone talking about it near , then my Core Power can use that as a an."
"So if you don't know or aren't aware, your core power can be deceived." The mom person said.
"If... I pull all the stops and use my power at maximum output..." [Eleanore] said after mulling sothing, "I can answer if sothing is true or not. I will not know the question or the answer... And will feel like shit for a week or two... But it is possible."
"..." The mom person took that and then turned to Aunty Viv. "What do you want? What do you want in return for allowing to ask sothing?"
"Will it wipe the smirk off the blonde bastard at the top of the Saintsworths?" [Eleanore] said, "Will this be sothing that will make that know-it-all all asshole of Alexanders Saintsworths squirm?"
"... Depending on your answer it just may." The mom person said, "But I can't guarantee the result."
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